from sky to seed

Container lettuce

She probably inherited it from me. I have no justifiable excuse for this. There’s plenty of evidence that it works. It’s just so hard to believe.

But it’s become clear to me that Jon and I simply cannot eat enough to keep up with the vegetables that pop up out of my garden. The conclusion? I simply do not need a gigantic garden, and the gigantic headache that accompanies it.

So this fall, I’m trying my hand at container gardening. A couple little green bean bushes, and a few bushels of spinach and lettuce.

I have to say, I didn’t just magically wake up and change my mind. I was killing time before a photoshoot for work and I stopped into the cutest antique/home goods store in the entire world and found this ridiculously overpriced washtub planter and couldn’t live without it.

But what to do with it?! I already have storage for towels and blankets and even guest welcome baskets and all the cute normal Pinterest-y ways people repurpose this stuff.

So my Jon drilled a couple holes in it for drainage…

Didn’t he do a fine job?

And then I partially filled it with rocks for even better drainage…

And then I filled it with (Gasp! I am so sorry…) Miracle Grow potting soil.